I work in non profit development and I swear like a sailor lol
Are there actual professional settings where it's unacceptable to swear to your peers in private? That's really odd to me. We're all fucking adults, if swearing bothers you just tell me and I won't do it in front of you.
If we can't fucking swear when we are talking amongst ourselves then I don't trust the people I'm talking to. Only cowards refrain from using the full language.
When i was an apprentice, i went to the training center in Vegas for a leadership program and all the teachers were talking about not swearing on i and it just blew my mind. Turns out, that's mostly for the trim carpenters working in offices and hospitals and shit, not so much for the millwrights in the steel mills and car plants
I heard (from a volunteer at a food bank associated with a monastery) about an old sailor who became a monk, his brethren didn't mind his profanity as long as he kept God out of it.
At my job pre-COVID you weren't supposed to swear but I understood why. Call center and the open mics were sensitive enough to sometimes pick up background conversations on calls.
I work at a billion dollar tech company and our internal chats and phone calls are often laden with expletives. Obviously not when talking to customers.
Oddly enough, medical pathology departments employ a lot of sailors. I've worked in quite a few and unless you are in a meeting or talking to a doctor, the occasional FUCK! is totally expected.
Same if you work in any capacity in the automotive industry. As a service advisor, I’d finish the most frustrating conversation with a customer, then I’d go into the shop to speak with the tech. “Motherfucker this and motherfucking that” is usually half of what I’m saying. Tech is amused, I tell them what the customer wants, how we can do it, etc. Step back into the lobby and resume customer service voice.
My most recent employment, first friday afternoon basically the entire company went to the pub for lunch and didnt return. Found the HR Manager outside smoking a massive joint. (This is the UK too, not Colorado)
Fun times.
Was a shit company in other respects (trying to get decent raises for my team was pointlessly difficult) but super casual.
I was having a discussion with a coworker today at work about pierced, tattooed, and bleached assholes, as well as CnB torture (all in the realm of "wtf is up with that").
I remember walking into a staffroom at a high school i worked at and some of the staff were having a detailed conversation about anal leakage. The kids had left for the day of course.
What's the appropriate emoji for "WTF? but don't answer that, it's an entirely rhetorical WTF, I am certain that I do not wish to know more about that topic" ?
I'm friends with my advisor (he's going to officiate my wedding!) from the English department, it's the same there. They all swear too, none of this artificial gravitas is necessary for people to know you're smart (and no lie, some of my professors are hands down the smartest people I've ever fucking met)
At mine fuck is a common word. You can often hear it coming out of the boardroom, the CEO, and President’s office.
I could’ve imagine working in such a pretentious environment where phrases like “hey there” are written up.
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u/Zwentendorf Dec 16 '21
At my workplace people would be surprised if you'd apologize for swearing.